[Fedora-xen] Xen Documentation

Gastón Keller gastonkeller at gmail.com
Fri May 30 00:06:32 UTC 2008


On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 7:53 PM, Emre ERENOGLU <erenoglu at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Gaston,
>
> It's true that some documentation is outdated. However, for the "/etc/xen"
> isssue, my custom Xen 3.2 setup still stores ( and I do store there also) my
> config files there.
>
> Maybe what you're saying is "Fedora Specific" which I could understand as
> it's fedora mailing list.

_The Fedora team has followed the Xensource model and begun to store
all VM configuration details in a database, referred to as xenstore._
Source: http://enterpriselinuxlog.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/06/07/fedora-7-xen-first-look/

Then, you might be right. I interpreted it was a modification from
Xen, not from Fedora (previously introduced by Xensource).

So, what is the advantage behind this movement?

Thanks,
Gaston

 However, I never found the flexibility and control
> in the Fedora way of Xen implementation (all those xml stuff etc.).  most
> probably, I'm wrong :)
>
> Emre
>
> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 9:22 PM, Gastón Keller <gastonkeller at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hello, everybody. I have been struggling with Xen's documentation
>> lately, not finding where to look for accurate and up-to-date info. I
>> remember having read in this list months ago someone saying that the
>> documentation was quite outdated. For example, the xm command _delete_
>> does not appear in the man pages and many guides still do reference to
>> the guest's config files being stored at /etc/xen (two days ago I
>> discovered that now Xen works in a different way).
>>
>> My objective is not only to learn how to use Xen, but understand how
>> it works. I'm doing my best looking for info in the net and going
>> through docs in the Xen Wiki, but I might be missing something in my
>> search. Therefore, I would really appreciate if someone could point me
>> to some documentation I should read, or whatever else you could think
>> of.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Gaston
>>
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>
>
> --
> Emre



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